Attorneys
August 2026
True or False?
1. In Mount Vernon, Iowa, one must obtain written permission from the city council before throwing bricks or stones into the street. The strange thing is, why not make it outright illegal? What scenario would benefit from throwing projectiles into the road? This ordinance extends to shooting arrows, rubber guns and air rifles into roads as well.
2. In Iowa City, it is illegal for a mustached man to kiss a woman in public.
3. Iowa law provides that “Imitation butter shall be sold only under the name of oleomargarine, and no person shall use in any way, in connection or association with the sale or exposure for sale or advertisement of any such product, the word butter, creamery, or dairy, or the name or representation of any breed of dairy cattle, or any combination of such word or words and representation, or any other words or symbols or combination thereof commonly used in the sale of butter.
